melken
Meaning
- (transitive) to milk a (farm) animal
- (intransitive) to play meekly, without risk, notably in duel ball sports like tennis
Concepts
milk
milking
to milk
Frequency
Hyphenated as
mel‧ken
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmɛlkə(n)/
Etymology
From Middle Dutch melken, from Old Dutch *melkan, from Proto-West Germanic *melkan, from Proto-Germanic *melkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.
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